On LAN, but wants to Dial-Up

[djhawthorn]

Ok, this has be stumped and I'm too tired at the moment to think what may be causing it.

I have a user with a laptop running NT4 SP5 IE5.5, and any time she tries to access a network server (thru explorer), a dialog pops up saying "The machine is unreachable, do you want to dial a remote network?" or something. She clicks "Cancel", and the explorer window opens up showing all the shares.

Internet Options has "Never dial a remote network" selected. Internet Connection Wizard has been run and was set to "Use Local Area Network".

She uses DHCP, and has DNS/WINS set up correctly. It doesn't matter if its a local server she tries to connect to, or a remote one. All are pingable, and all have the same effect - it thinks it can't access it over the LAN so want's to dial up.

Any ideas how I can disable this most annoying dialog box? MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[LOB]

Not sure if this cure might be more pain than disease but for laptops I use separate Hardware Profiles. For modem access I diable the nic to avoid DHCP errors. I don't disable the modem for LAN access but I do turn off (manual) the RASMAN autodial service because it would try to autodial on LAN HW profile. I would think disabling modem should work for that hardware profile but I haven't done it so I don't know if NT will have other errors.
Sorry

 

[djhawthorn]

I think I have hardware profiles set up on that laptop, just like you suggest - remote access the LAN adapter is disabled, but for both the modem is enabled.

I'll have a check for the RASMAN autodial service though... may be what I'm looking for. Thanks. MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[Shadowblade]

You can also do the following:

Double click "my computer" go to "dial up networking" click on the "more" button at you right hand side, click "user preferences", in the first tab "dialing" uncheck all those who are checked in the auto-dial screen.

Hope this helps,

Shadow.